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Sophie Barnett: EU Leaders in Malta: Addressing Migration Ahead of Taormina, February 1, 2017
Annie Beaulieu: COP21, SDGs and Tourism — Just for Policy Makers or for Everyone?, December 8, 2015; Azerbaijan: Transitioning from a Black Gold Economy to a Sustainable Tourism and Innovation Economy, March 16, 2016; A Focus on Sustainable Growth But No Mention of Tourism's Potential, July 13, 2017; The Carbon Impact of Travelling for World Peace, August 25, 2019
Liam Bekirsky: Can France Lead the G7 in Bridging the Digital Divide?, March 26, 2019; La France peut-elle mener le G7 à combler la fracture numérique ?, 26 mars 2019; France's G7 Presidency: From Digital to Education Strategy, May 16, 2019; La présidence française du G7 : De la stratégie numérique à la stratégie pour l'éducation, 16 mai 2019
Francesco Bergoglio Errico: Migration toward Europe and Foreign Terrorist Fighters, with Chiara Oldani, July 23, 2018
Hannah Bettsworth: Can France Bring a Feminist Foreign Policy to the G7?, February 23, 2019, updated March 13, 2019
Katrina Bland: From Taormina to Charlevoix, September 9, 2017; Putting Gender Equality on the Table, October 9, 2017; How Indigenous Peoples and G7 Leaders Can Best Work Together in 2018, December 26, 2017; Canada's Sixth G7 Summit: Charlevoix, January 29, 2018; Aligning Mental Health with Canada's G7 Charlevoix Priorities, June 8, 2018
Paulo Botta: The Potential Impact of the G20 on Argentina's Foreign Policy, February 28, 2018
Caroline Bracht: Climate Change, Employment and COP21, December 4, 2015; Improving Inclusion, Innovation and Implementation: The G7 Education Ministers at Kurashiki, May 17, 2016
Caitlin Byrne: China: Competent Yet Constrained on G20 Public Diplomacy, April 1, 2016
Sarah Burton: G7 Foreign Ministers and Conflict Prevention, April 16, 2016; Do Ambitious G7 Commitments Secure Less Compliance?, June 3, 2016
Jaquelin Coulson: Expectations for the G7-Africa Partnership under France's Presidency, July 10, 2019
Carey Davis: Implications of American Apostasy, June 10, 2018
Martin Dionne: How Can the G20 Use AI to Help Create Sustainable Communities in an Inter-Connected World? with Sarah Mariani
Sonja Dobson: The Impact of the 2018 G7 Charlevoix Summit Outreach Sessions on Development in Africa, March 17, 2019
Alecsandra Dragus: G7 ICT Ministers Make Advances in Kagawa, May 1, 2016
Marie Dubois: Gender and France's 2019 G7, October 22, 2018; Le genre sur l'agenda du G7 de la France en 2019, 22 octobre 2018
Katyrina Dzhaha: Is the G20 Ready for the Next Global Financial Crisis?, February 4, 2016; Will the G20 Finance Ministerial in Shanghai Lead Global Financial Regulation in the Right Direction?, February 19, 2016
Hélène Emorine: G20 Hamburg Summit: A Strong Success for Counter-Terrorism, with Denisse Rudich, July 13, 2017; Cautious Success: G7 Foreign Ministers Pressure U.S. to Stay in Iran Deal, April 24, 2018; Missing in Action at the Halifax G7 Ministerial: France's Nicolas Hulot, September 18, 2018; Porté disparu à la réunion ministérielle du G7 à Halifax: Nicolas Hulot de la France, 18 septembre 2018
Alexandre T. Gingras: A Waltz on the Red Line: Will the G20 Call the Tune Again?, April 10, 2017; Fire, Fury and the G20, September 21, 2017; The Roles of G7 and G20 Foreign Ministers, June 2, 2018
Matthew Goodman: G7 Leaders Need to Talk, May 16, 2016
Jenilee Guebert: COP21 — A Legal or Political Deal?, December 2, 2015
The Climate Change-Health Nexus at COP21: Moving Beyond the Environment, December 8, 2015
Courtney Hallink: Senegal's Macky Sall at the G20 Hangzhou Summit: Included Guest or Sidelined Observer? September 4, 2016; Opening Up a Dialogue between the G20 and Africa, January 31, 2017
Angela Min Yi Hou: The G7 and the BRICS: Companions Not Competitors, June 25, 2018; Looking Forward to the 2019 Biarritz Summit, with Julia Tops, July 3, 2018; First-Quarter Compliance with G7 Charlevoix's Key Commitments, September 18, 2018; Fighting the Amazon Fires: Biodiversity at the G7 Biarritz Summit, with Sofia Lopez, August 23, 2019; What Might Come from the G7 Biarritz Summit, August 25, 2019
Aurora Hudson: Complying with Global Summit Climate Change Commitments: G7, G20 and UN Performance, December 1, 2015
Alev Kayagil: The Conversation on Climate-Induced Migration, December 15, 2015
Tasnia Khan: Action Items Toward Sustainable Finance, September 20, 2019
John Kirton: Shanghai's Solid, Slow Start to China's G20 Year, February 28, 2016; From Agenda Setting to Achievement at the G7's Ise-Shima Summit, April 1, 2016; G7 Foreign Policy from Hiroshima to Ise-Shima and Beyond, April 10, 2016; G7 Agriculture Ministers' Advances at Niigata, April 25, 2016; Saving Lives at the G7 Ise-Shima Summit, May 26, 2016; The G7's Poor Performance on Climate Change Control, May 27, 2016; The South China Sea Dispute from Japan's G7 to China's G20 Summit, July 7, 2016; A Disappointing Response to Global Dangers from G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors at Chengdu, July 24, 2016; President Xi Jinping's Priorities for the G20's Hangzhou Summit, August 30, 2016; The Hangzhou Summit's First Small Step to Control Climate Change, August 31, 2016; Will the G20 Keep Its Promises to Reform the International Financial Institutions? (with Brittaney Warren), October 6, 2016; President Trump Meets the G7 and the G20, November 11, 2016; The G7's Merkel and Trudeau React to Trump, November 12, 2016; China's G20 Leadership with Trump, Beijing, November 14, 2016; From Hangzhou to Fabo: Implementing Innovation after China's G20 Summit, Beijing, November 15, 2016; Innovation for Environmental Protection from Hangzhou to Hefei, Hefei, China, November 17, 2016; Could China Lead the G20 in Combating Non-communicable Diseases?, Bantang, China, November 18, 2016; China's Global Leadership at APEC and Anhui, November 23, 2016; The Hamburg Summit's Challenge of Shaping an Interconnected World in a Way that Works for Migrants and Refugees, with Madeline Koch, December 1, 2016; Xi Jinping's Global Leadership at Davos 2017, January 8, 2017; Theresa May and Donald Trump Tackle Terrorism at Taormina, May 23, 2017; G20 Climate Change Control without the White House, June 2, 2017; Argentina's Agenda for G20 2018, June 4, 2017; France's G7 Priorities for 2018/19, March 21, 2018; Connecting Security and Climate Change at the G7 Foreign Ministers Meeting: Making the Missing Link from Lucca 2017 at Toronto 2018, April 22, 2018; Shocked into Strong Success: Prospects for the 2018 G7 Foreign Ministers' Meeting, April 22, 2018; Committed to Resilience: G7 Foreign Ministers' Commitments on Counter-Terrorism in 2017, with Mary Zelenova, April 23, 2018; Protecting Citizen Safety in a Committed and Comprehensive Way: Challenges for the G7 Foreign and Security Ministers' in 2018, with Brittaney Warren, April 24, 2018; Trump's Trade Protectionism, G7's Charlevoix Success, June 2, 2018; Russia's Return to the G7/G8? June 8, 2018; U.S. Goals Spur Charlevoix Summit Success, June 7, 2018; The Charlevoix Summit's Success on Day One, June 8, 2018; A Dual Track to Start Day Two at Charlevoix, June 9, 2018; A Summit of Significant Success at G7 Charlevoix 2018, June 9, 2018; Promising Prospects for the Halifax G7 Environment Ministers' Meeting, September 1, 2018; Strengthening Sources of Success for the Halifax G7 Environment Ministers' Meeting, September 10, 2018; Momentum for Major Advances at the Halifax G7 Environment Ministerial Meeting, September 16, 2018; A Strong Start to the G7 Halifax Environment Ministers Meeting, September 19, 2018; Momentum Builds at the G7 Halifax Environment Ministers Meeting, September 19, 2018; A Meeting of Meaningful Momentum: The G7 Environment Ministers at Halifax, September 19, 2018; The G7 Halifax Ministerial Meeting Raises a Record Amount of Funding, September 20, 2018; The G20 Osaka Summit's Prospective Trade Success, May 16, 2019
Madeline Koch: The Hamburg Summit's Challenge of Shaping an Interconnected World in a Way that Works for Migrants and Refugees, with John Kirton, December 1, 2016
Ella Kokotsis: G7 and G20 Contributions to Mitigating Climate Change — Then and Now, December 1, 2015; Overcoming Critical Challenges: Legal Force, CDR, Loss-Damages, Finance and MRVs, December 4, 2015; How Trump and Taormina Could Have Advanced U.S. Energy Security, June 8, 2017; Trump's Dramatic Failure in Advancing Climate Change and U.S. Energy Security, August 22, 2017
Kathryn Kotris: Promising Policies for Persistent Problems in Trade<, July 17, 2016; A History of Charlevoix, September 26, 2017
Julia Kulik: Helping the Climate and Women Together: What Can Paris Do?, December 3, 2015; Will the Ise-Shima Summit Generate Growth Through Global Governance?, May 25, 2016; G7 Leaders' Reactions to the U.S. Election: Looking Ahead to a Summit with President Trump, November 17, 2016
Christine Lagarde: How to Help, Not Hinder Global Growth, June 5, 2019; published with permission
Andrew F. Liu: Mobilizing a Reformed International Monetary Fund, September 3, 2016
Sofia Lopez: Fighting the Amazon Fires: Biodiversity at the G7 Biarritz Summit, with Angela Min Yi Hou, August 23, 2019
Jonathan Luckhurst: Prospects and Prescriptions for the G20's Shanghai Finance Meeting, February 19, 2016; No G20 Policy Shift, Despite Shanghai's Focus on Sustainable Growth, February 29, 2016; November Asia-Pacific Summits Influenced by Global Authority Shifts, November 6, 2017
Sarah Mariani: How Can the G20 Use AI to Help Create Sustainable Communities in an Inter-Connected World? with Martin Dionne, September 21, 2017; The Role of Youth at the 2018 Charlevoix Summit, April 12, 2019
Maria Marchyshyn: The Trans-Pacific Partnership: From the G7 in Japan to Canada and the United States, July 17, 2016; Hamburg 2017: Will Germany Complete the Missing Pieces from Hangzhou?, October 16, 2016; Mobilizing CETA's Opportunities for Canadian Business, October 25, 2017
Matthew McIntosh: The Hangzhou Summit and the Case of Youth Unemployment, October 6, 2016; Climate Change at Taormina, May 25, 2017; From COP21 in Paris to the G20 in Hamburg to COP23 in Bonn, August 1, 2017
Tyler McMurdo: France's Climate Change Leadership in the European Union and the World: What This Means for Biarritz, February 3, 2019
Duja Muhanna: G7 Environmental Ministers Advance Leaders' Oceans Governance, September 20, 2018; Tackling Health at the Buenos Aires Summit and Beyond, December 6, 2018; Biodiversity and the Road to the G7, April 25, 2019; Will the G7 Health Ministerial Meeting Spur the G7 Biarritz Summit to a Healthy Success?, May 16, 2019
Tristen Naylor: On Linking Terrorism and Climate Change, December 10, 2015; The G20 and 21st-Century Communication, August 1, 2016; China's G20 Summit: How Not to Do Message Control, September 18, 2016; High Turnover at the Summit Table: Does It Matter?, May 23, 2017; On the Margins: Meetings to Watch at the Hamburg G20, July 4, 2017; The New Role of the G20: Safeguarding Global Governance from a Revisionist America, July 6, 2017; The G7 Summit Will Show What Sort of Brexit Britain Faces, August 22, 2019
Hanh Nguyen: Integrating a Gender-Responsive Approach in Climate Change Decision Making, July 22, 2016; Climate Finance under New U.S. Presidency, November 23, 2016
Liz Noh: Japan's Approach to the G7 Ise-Shima Summit, March 8, 2016; Civil Society Gathers at the G7 Ise-Shima Summit, May 25, 2016
Chiara Oldani: Italy, China and Sardinia, November 24, 2016; A Tough Start to Italy's Year as G7 Host, December 5, 2016; The First Days of Italy's New Prime Minister, December 12, 2016; Italy's New-Old Government, December 21, 2016; The Pillars of the Italian G7 Presidency, February 11, 2017; Governing Global Derivatives: G7/G20 Progress, Problem, Possibilities, March 20, 2017; From Finance in Bari to the Summit in Taormina, May 23, 2017; Migration toward Europe and Foreign Terrorist Fighters, with Francesco Bergoglio Errico, July 23, 2018
Daniel C. Park: Sluggish Growth Cannot Count: Back to the Drawing Board for World Leaders? September 3, 2016; North Korea: From Vancouver to Charlevoix, February 2, 2018
Giorgia Ponti: Renzi and the 2017 G7, May 28, 2016
Denisse Rudich: EU Leaders Welcome the Chinese Presidency of the G20 Summit (with Marissa Young), September 8, 2016; From Hangzhou to Hamburg: Ensuring a Smooth Transition, October 4, 2016; Round-Up of Financial Crime, Corruption and Terrorism Initiatives at the G20 Osaka Summit, August 24, 2019
Sarah Richardson: The BRICS Summit and Brexit: Trade and Investment Prospects, October 18, 2016; How Brexit's Article 50 Will Affect G7 and G20 Summitry in 2017, April 3, 2017; G20 Hamburg Summit: A Strong Success for Counter-Terrorism, with Hélène Emorine, July 13, 2017
Tristram Sainsbury: China's G20 Moment Approaches, September 2, 2016
Amandine Scherrer: What France's Election Might Mean for the G7 and G20 Summits, May 3, 2017
Sabrina Shaw: From Hamburg to Buenos Aires: Education, Innovation and the Future of Work, September 8, 2017 (updated September 24, 2017); Championing Latin America in the G20, November 3, 2017
Chris Sims: Corruption and the G20: An Insufficient Success, January 9, 2019
Janel Smith: Building Resilient Societies to Counter Global Terrorism, March 31, 2016
Dennis Snower: An Evaluation of the G20 Hamburg Summit, July 10, 2017
Bogdan Stovba: Prospects for the G7 Biarritz Summit Performance on Russia, August 23, 2019; Trump Suggests Inviting Russia to the Next G7 Summit, August 26, 2019
Julia Tops: Looking Forward to the 2019 Biarritz Summit, with Angela Min Yi Hou, July 3, 2018; First-Quarter Compliance with G7 Charlevoix's Key Commitments, September 18, 2018; What Might Come from the G7 Biarritz Summit, August 25, 2019
Heidi Ullrich: The G20 and the Digital Gender Divide: Closing the Gender Gap in ICT Skill Development, June 7, 2017
Alissa Wang: The G7 Finance Ministerial Meeting at Sendai — United and Divided, May 25, 2016; The G20 Finance Ministerial Meeting at Chengdu or , July 25, 2016; Prospects for the 2016 BRICS Goa Summit, August 30, 2016; China's Coordination of the G20 and BRICS Summits, September 4, 2016; BRICS Summit: Has a Bridge Been Built? September 5, 2016; Predicting China's G20 Compliance from Hangzhou to Davos, January 24, 2017; From Tweeting to Talking — The Trump-Xi Relationship from Florida to Hamburg, April 10, 2017; Prospects for the Xiamen Summit, August 28, 2017; The Clash of Two Summits: The G7 Charlevoix Summit and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit, June 9, 2018
Tracy Wang: Forging the Economy-Security Link at the Toronto G7 Foreign and Security Ministers Meeting, April 22, 2018
Brittaney Warren: Financing the Climate at COP21, December 8, 2015; Dealing with Disruptive Technology, January 20, 2016; The Costs and Benefits of Disruptive Technologies, Febuary 3, 2016; China's First G20 Sherpa Meeting and Beyond, February 11, 2016; G7 Energy Ministers Meet Ahead of Ise-Shima Summit, May 3, 2016; The Revival of the G7 Environment Ministers' Meeting, May 18, 2016; Following the Money at Ise-Shima, May 26, 2016; G20 Agriculture Ministers Discuss Hunger, Poverty, Climate and Intensive Agriculture, June 7, 2016; G20 Energy Ministers Meet Again, July 6, 2016; Will the G20 Keep Its Promises to Reform the International Financial Institutions? (with John Kirton), October 6, 2016; Trump and Climate Change: From COP22 to the G7, November 18, 2016; From Trump's Inauguration to the G20 Hamburg Summit, January 25, 2017; G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meet in Baden-Baden, March 18, 2017; Trump's Executive Order: A New Energy Era, April 3, 2017; Tales Taormina Can Tell G7 Leaders, with Meredith Williams, May 25, 2017; Toward a Legally Binding Climate Agreement at UNGA, October 10, 2017; Protecting Citizen Safety in a Committed and Comprehensive Way: Challenges for the G7 Foreign and Security Ministers' in 2018, with John Kirton, April 24, 2018; G7 Finance and Development Ministers Issue Co-chairs' Summary, June 3, 2018; Canada's Leadership at the 2018 G7 Environment Ministers' Meeting in Halifax, September 21, 2018; Climate Ambition Stagnant at G20 Osaka Summit, July 29, 2019; Linking Climate with Agriculture, Biodiversity and Oceans, August 26, 2019
David A. Welch: A Crossroads in Korea, February 12, 2016; The G7 and the South China Sea, May 26, 2016; On Maritime Security, G7 Leaders Pivot Toward International Law, May 27, 2016; Are G20 Summits Worth It?, July 3, 2019
Meredith Williams: Can the T20 Help the G20 Meet the Challenges of Financial Regulation?, December 2, 2016; Tales Taormina Can Tell G7 Leaders, with Brittaney Warren, May 25, 2017
Katherine Yampolsky: G7 Performance on Terrorism, 1975-2018, August 24, 2019
Marissa J. Young: A Fundamental Gap: Why China's G20 Must Address Health Security, September 4, 2016; EU Leaders Welcome the Chinese Presidency of the G20 Summit (with Denisse Rudich), September 8, 2016
Mary Zelenova: Committed to Resilience: G7 Foreign Ministers' Commitments on Counter-Terrorism in 2017, with John Kirton, April 23, 2018; Trump Suggests Inviting Russia to the Next G7 Summit, August 26, 2019
Ana Zotovic: Comparing Copenhagen 2009 and Paris 2015, November 30, 2015; Renewables Respond to the Climate Change Challenge, December 10, 2015

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